Sometimes there's architecture IN a film, and sometimes architecture is LIKE a film. But sometimes the architecture IS the film: When it rises above just being a thing to see, and becomes a MECHANISM for a WAY of SEEING, that is the Architecture OF Film

Friday, October 08, 2010

You know, there are many times when I'm drafting on Autocad and I'm reworking somebody else's work that I've taken over, and as I decide to hatch something differently (correctly!) or change a lineweight or text justification, I often say to myself, (or as is usually the case, outloud, just to bother the guy on the other side of the partition,) that immortal line spoken by Richard Dreyfuss in the movie The Goodbye Girl (1977), I'm sure you'll all remember. It's another one of those times when the content of the line matters not at all, it's all in the delivery: